The Emergence of E-Scaped Medicine

S. Nettleton

doi:10.1177/0038038504045857

The Emergence of E-Scaped Medicine

S. Nettleton

Department of Sociology

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Abstract

This article asks the question, is it possible to decipher a new ‘medical cosmology’ that possesses an elective affinity with contemporary socio-technological changes? It tentatively answers in the positive and attempts to identify the parameters of a new medical cosmology that it terms e-scaped medicine.To discern the conceptual underpinnings of e-scaped medicine the article draws on De Mul’s theorization of the ‘informatization of the worldview’.The article elaborates on this thesis in relation to medicine’s prime object - the body - and to a number of medical practices that surround it.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	661-680
Number of pages	19
Journal	Sociology
Volume	38
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038504045857
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2004

Keywords

bodies
ICTs
information
medical knowledge
COMPLEXITY SCIENCE
HEALTH

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